SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
NICOLE EISENMAN
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1965        Born in Verdun, France

               Lives and works in New York

 

Education

1987        BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

Solo Exhibitions

2007        “A Show Born of Fear”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

               Nicole Eisenman, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Le Plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris, France

2006        “Progress: Real and Imagined”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2005        Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin

               “Chunga en el callejon del Cuajo”, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (with Jessica Rodriguez)

2004        Van Horn, Düsseldorf

               “Elizaville”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2003        The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

2002        Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000        Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

               Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1999        Entwistle Gallery, London

1998        “Behavior”, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX

               Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996        Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

               Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, (with Jason Fox)

1995        Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht

               Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1994        Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

1993        Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

               Trial Balloon, New York

1992        Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

              

Group Exhibitions

2007        “Horizon”, EFA Gallery, New York, curated by David Humphrey

2006        “The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

               “Through the Looking Glass”, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland

               “This is not a Love Song”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2005        “Post Everything”, The Rotunda Gallery, New York

               “Urban Stories”, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid

               “360 degrees art”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany, curated by Stefan von Wiese

               Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

               Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

               “Self-Preservation Society”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York

               Roger Bijkomen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

               “A La Pared/On the Wall”, Museum De Arte Carrilo Gil, San Angel, Mexico

               “Silent Stories”, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

               “Slices of Life”, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

2004        K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

               “Central Station: The Harold Falckenberg Collection”, La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine

                       de Albert, Paris

               “Dreamland Artists Club”, Creative Time, New York

               “USA Today”, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway

               “The Coney Island Project”, Creative Time, New York

               “100 Artists See God”, curated by John Baldesarri and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum,

                        San Francisco, CA

…As Time Goes By”, Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne, Germany

Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden         

2003        “…As Time Goes By”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York

               “DC: Lilly van der Stokker”, Ludwig Museum, Cologne

               “On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau”, Sammlung Speck; K21 Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

               Sammlung Speck, Kunstmuseum Graz, Austria

               “Off the Wall”, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

               “The Feminine Persuasion,” Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN

               “Comic Release!”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

               “Turn On, Drop Out”, China Art Objects, Los Angeles

               “The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum”, Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles

   “The Paper Sculpture Show,” The Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (In Collaboration with ICI)

   “There's Always Tomorrow”, Galeria Maribini, Bologna, Italy

   “Retrospectacle: 25 years of collecting Modern and Contemporary Art”, Denver Museum of

            Art, Denver

2002        “Family”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

               “El Bello Genero Convulsiones y Permanencias Actuales”, Comunidad de Madrid,

                       Consejeria de las Artes, Madrid

               “The Empire Strikes Back”, curated by Jason Fox and Cannon Hudson, Avenue B Gallery,

                       New York

               “Super Natural Playground”, Marella Fine Arts, Milan, Italy

2001        “Fast Food For Thought: Cartoon in Art”, ArtScan Gallery & Rudolph Projects, Houston

               “Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics”, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art,

                       Cleveland, OH (catalogue)

               “Waterworks”, curated by Kim Levin, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn,

                       Sweden (catalogue)

               “Driving Women”, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY

               “Self Made Men”, curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York

               American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American

                       Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

               “Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper)”, Texas Gallery, Houston

2000        “Uncomfortable Beauty”, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York

               “H2O”, Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles

               “Blurring Lines in Contemporary Drawing”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

               “People”, Andrea Rosen Gallery Booth, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

               “Picturing the Modern Amazon”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)

               “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism," Snug Harbor, Newhouse Center for

                       Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York

               “1/2: Going Forward Looking Back”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

               “The Likeness of Being”, DC Moore Gallery, New York

               “Prophecies”, Swiss Institute, New York

               Zona F, Espai d'art contemporani de Castell, Castell, Spain

               “Deja Vu: Reworking the Past”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

               “Here Kitty, Kitty”, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

1999        “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II”, 1950-2000,

                       Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

               “Warehouse”, Exit Art, New York

               “I am a Virgin”, The Waiting Room at the School of Art and Design, University of

                       Wolverhampton, UK

               “54 x 54 x 54”, Museum of Contemporary Art, London

               “Two Doors—True Value”, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich

1998        “Cant We All Just Get Along”, Deven Golden, New York

               “Codex USA”, Entwistle Gallery, London

               “Deal and Reality”, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria

               “From The Corner of the Eye”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

               “some WOMEN/PRETTY girls”, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

               “Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting”, Whitney Museum at

                       Champion, Stamford, CT

               “The Wolfsonian Mural Project”, Miami (organized by The Drawing Center, New York)

               “Gay Games”, Amsterdam 1998, poster project, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1997        “HEART, MIND, BODY, SOUL: American Art in the 1990s”, Selections from the

                       Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

               “New Work—Drawings Today”, San Fransisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

               “Drawn & Quartered”, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York

               “Woven in Oaxaca”, A/D Gallery, New York

               “Women’s Work”, SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

               “Just What Do You Think You’re Doing Dave”, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,

                       Brooklyn, NY

               “Form and Function of Drawing Today”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

               “Fracturing the Gaze”, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX

               “The Gaze”, Momenta Art, New York

               “Dissolution: Made in the U.S.A.”, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London

               Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

               “The Road Show”, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York

               “Vraiment: Féminisme et l’art”, curated by Laura Cottingham, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

               “Sex / Industry”, curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

               “20 x 152”, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York

               “The Name of the Place”, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan, New York

1996        “Identity Crisis: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, Alexandros Soutzos

                       Museum, Athens, Greece (traveled to: Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain;

                       Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, National Gallery, Athens, Greece)

               “a/drift”, curated by Joshua Dector, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies,

                       Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

               “Be Specific”, curated by Michael Duncan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

               “Gender, fucked”, curated by Catherine Lord, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

               “The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art: Nicole Eisenman, Erika Rothenberg,

                       Jimmy Shaw, Benjamin Weissman, Sue Williams”, Galerie in Haus 19,

                       Munich, Germany

               “Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History”,

                       Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, Los Angeles

               “Defining the Nineties: Consensus-Making In New York, Miami and Los Angeles”, c

                       urated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

               “Real Fake”, Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY

               “Screen”, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

               “Playtime”, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT

1995        “A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle”, Santa Monica Museum of

                       Art, Santa Monica, CA

               “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

               “Pervert”, The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

               “Picassoid”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

               “Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraits”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,

                       Ridgefield, CT

               “Way Cool,” Exit Art, New York

               “Odschon Malerei (Painting)”, Gallery Mittelstrasse 18, Potsdam, Germany

               “Komix”, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

               Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

               “Toys Art Us”, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York

               “Seduction and Betrayal”, curated by Shoshana Blank and Bonnie Clearwater,

                       Galerie Krinzinger,

                        Vienna, Austria

               New Museum Benefit Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1994        “Watt, Witte de With”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany

               Kunsthaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria

               Sonnabend Gallery, New York

               White Columns, New York

               The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

               “The Seventh Wave”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

               “Sex”, Adam Baumgold Fine Arts, New York

               “Bad Girls”, The Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

               “Return of the Cadavre Exquis”, The Drawing Center, New York

               “Bad Girls”, curated by Marcia Tanner, Wright Art Gallery, University of California,

                       Los Angeles

               “Arrested Childhood”, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, The Center for Contemporary Art,

                       Miami, FL

               “Wenn die Kinder sind im Dunkeln”, curated by Birgit Jürgenssen,

                       Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

               “Bad Girls”, The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

1993        “Bad Girls”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

         “bODD”, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

               “The Seventh Wave”, curated by Stephen Foster, John Hansard Gallery,

                       University of Southampton, UK

               “Urban Analysis”, curated by Maynard Munroe, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York

               “Eau de Cologne 83—93”, Monica Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

               “Coming to Power”, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

               “1920”, Exit Art/The First World, New York

               Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York

1992        303 Gallery, New York

               “Fever”, Exit Art/The First World, New York

               “Wall Drawings”, The Drawing Center, New York

               “Part Fantasy”, Trial Balloon, New York

               “The Lesbian Museum: 10,000 Years of Penis Envy”, Franklin Furnace, New York

               “Imagining Indians”, curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York

1990        “Figuring Eros”, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural enter,

                       Staten Island, NY

 

Bibliography

2007        Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art: Nicole Eisenman, ‘A Show Born of Fear’ at Susanne

                       Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, LA Weekly, October 25

               Schindler, Anna, “In der Kunsthalle Zürich: das ‘bad girl’ Nicole Eisenman”,

                       Kunstzeitung, May

2006        Hirsch, Faye, “Tides and Tidings”, Art in America, October

               Smith, Roberta, “Nicole Eisenman: ‘Progress: Real & Imagined’”, New York Times, June 10

               Hontoria, Javier, “Trazons de un arte urgente”, El Cultural, February 9-15

2005        Parker, Erik, “The Artists’ Artists”, Artforum, December

               Davis, Tim, “Top Ten”, Artforum, May

2004        Burton, Johanna, “Nicole Eisenman”, Artforum, Summer

               Von Lilien, Titus, “Bomben auf Barbieland”, Quest, May-June

               The New Yorker, April 5

               Chasin, Noah, “Nicole Eisenman: Elizaville”, Time Out New York, April 1-8

               Büsing, Nicole and Klass, Heiko, “Vor Eröffnung ausverkauft”, Die Welt, March 27

               The New York Sun, March 25

               Reed, John, “Critics’ Picks”, Artforum, March

               Hirsch, Jaye, “Nicole Eisenman at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art”,

                       Art in America, February

2003        Sillman, Amy, “Top Ten”, Artforum

               Greenfield, Beth, “fired up”, Out, July

               “ARTtalk: canvas”, ARTnews, May

               “America, il doce domain”, La Republica, March

2002        Myers, Holly, “Emotions of childhood linger in paint”, New York Times, December 27

               Stark, Rachael, “Nicole Eisenman: Portrait of the Artist as Collaborator”,

                       NY Arts, July/August

               Aizpuru, Margarita, “El Bello Género”, Comunidad de Madrid, June

2001        Levin, Kim, “Self-made men: male self portraits”, The Village Voice, May 1

               Harris, Susan, “Nicole Eisenman at Jack Tilton”, Art in America, January

2000        Clifford, Katie, “Nicole Eisenman: Jack Tilton”, ARTnews, November

               Naves, Mario, “All About Bambi’s Sex Life”, The New York Observer, October 16

               “Nicole Eisenman”, The New Yorker, October 9

               Baer, Josh, “Slow and Steady”, New York Magazine, October 9

               Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review: Nicole Eisenman”, The New York Times, October 6

               Levin, “Voice Choice: Nicole Eisenman”, The Village Voice, September 19

               Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, “Fantastic Worlds”, Art Papers Magazine, July/August

               Anton, Saul, “Prophecies”, Time Out NY, March 9-16

               Kennedy, Gideon C., “Enter the Doghouse”, Atlanta Press, February 11-17

               Fox, Catherine, “Exploring Our Best Pals”, AJC, February 4

               Korotkin, Joyce B., “The Likeness of Being”, The New York Art World, February

               Silverstein, Joel, Review, February

               Goddard, Donald, “Art Review: Nicole Eisenman”, newyorkartworld.com

               Cembalest, Robin, “The Woman in the Mirror”, Elle, January

 

Projects

2006        Ridykeulous, curated by Nicole Eisenman and A. L. Steiner, Participant Inc, New York

2002        Scenery, White Oak Dance Project

2000        Jennifer Monson, set design for dance program at The Kitchen, New York

1998        The Choice, co-curated group exhibition at Exit Art, New York

1995-02    Summer of Bad Plays, Writer and Actor

1995        Magazine cover project for Art magazine, March

1994        Centerfold project for Frieze magazine, November/December

 

Grants and Awards

2002        Cabinet Magazine paper sculpture project

               Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME

1996        John Simon Guggenheim Grant

1995        The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

               The Lois Tiffany Grant

               Penny McCall Foundation Grant

 

Museum and Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithica, NY

The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

 

Teaching

Present    Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2001-02    Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2000-01    School of Visual Arts, New York

 

Guest Lecturer

Bard College, NY

Columbia University, New York

Colgate University, NY

Harvard University, Architecture Department, MA

Hunter College, New York

Mount Royal College of Art, MD

Provincetown Workshop, MA

Rhode Island School of Design, RI

School of Visual Arts, New York

SUNY New Platz, NY

SUNY Binghamton, NY

University of Tennessee, TN

University of Kentucky, KT

Vassar College, NY

Yale University, CT

Princeton University, NJ

Queens College, NY